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English National Ballet School Professional Trainees show great versatility in their final performance of the year, with a highly entertaining mixed programme.

A curate's egg of dance. 

An intimate “sharing” about love and desire. 

Both poignant and hilarious. Thick & Tight mix dance theatre, mime and lip syncing to create imaginary encounters between women who have never met. 

I was proud to be an honorary Welshman, even if only for a couple of hours.

A rare and welcome one-off London appearance by Ballet Cymru with a work that explores the dark side of human nature through its shadow aspect  

Three dysfunctional fairy tales are presented by Vardimon’s JV2 at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis studio.

A double bill of variable quality, Aakash Odedra shines in Aditi Mangaldas’ new piece
Echoes, but struggles to find his choreographic foothold in I Imagine.

Dave and his daughter Sam lose sight of each other and the world around them after the sudden death of their wife and mother Jackie. Getting up close and personal, Stopgap Dance Company’s new work The Enormous Room is an absorbing encounter with grief and loss.

A vivid, colourful and imaginative dance theatre interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's morality tale 

Described by Sadler's Wells as the "jewel" in their community programme, the Company of Elders sparkles like a highly polished diamond. This ensemble is packed with personalities, as they take to stage with three works by Seeta Patel, Jade Shaw and Michela Meazza.

The first UK production of Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1930s anti-war opera Simplicius Simplicissimus is a musical and dramatic triumph, and as pertinent as ever

Wild Card invites The Palest Light at the Lilian Baylis Studio: the new generation of dance makers proposes a spa treatment for the soul.

“Once upon a time, a little boy went against his father’s will…” The Akram Khan Company and MOKO Dance’s Chotto Desh leave the audience wide-eyed.

Arthur Pita's balletic take on Andersen's The Little Match Girl delights children and adults, and offers a bright alternative for the festive season.

Young Chinese choreographer Tao Ye presented two parts of his series of abstract works to a small audience in Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio this weekend.

From their new South Bank home to the Liliyan Balis Studio, Rambert Dance Company showcases their dancers' own choreography, in an Evening of New Choreography. Reviewed by Rosamaria Cisneros-Kostic. 

A small company with big ambitions, Ballet Cymru’s latest work, Romeo and Juliet, is another triumph for this determined company. 

In her curated evening at Sadler's Wells, Laura Dajao takes a closer look at what it means to dance.

A real mixture of contemporary and Khattak influences brought together Anand Bhatt’s mixed bill at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio in this week’s Wild Card performance. An evening of energetic dancers, intriguing solos and live music made for a really entertaining evening. Bhatt is a charity fundraiser and Bollywood dancer with a real appreciation for contemporary dance.

It is certainly fortunate that this year London Flamenco Festival, which is proudly celebrating its tenth anniversary, has a small section in the programme entitled Beyond Flamenco. Comprising productions and events that offer a less orthodox look at this style of Spanish gypsy-rooted dancing, it complements the all-star programme in the Sadler’s Wells main auditorium.

I wanted to love Ivan Blackstock’s Wild Card night at Sadler’s Wells. With seven pieces, one pre-show performance and post-show DJs, there was almost three hours of material to engage with. I felt the passion Blackstock and his dancers had for their art, and their energy kept me going, almost.

Dan Canham’s Wild Card at Sadler’s Wells meandered through an interesting progression of folk dancing, artistic musings and charming traditions, and I came away with a smile and a lot to think about. This evening was part of a series of three performances in the Lillian Baylis Studio Theatre, which aims to give chosen artists a night to share their work, inspirations and ambitions.

Babur in London is the latest production from pioneering opera company The Opera Group, and it provided a thought-provoking evening. A collaborative venture between British-born composer Edward Rushton and New Delhi-based librettist Jeet Thayil, the new work has already toured Switzerland, and arrived in London following dates in Basingstoke, Oxford, Leeds and Birmingham.

Noé Soulier filled the first half of the evening with two pieces – Le Royaume des Ombres (“The Kingdom of Shades”) and D’un pays lointain (“From Another Land”) – both of which were experimental works, playing with and distorting the conventional construction of the ballet language.

Playfully idiosyncratic and multidimensional, Daniel Linehan’s Zombie Aporia is a collection of six short pieces, each with its own distinct flavour. In his second visit to Sadler’s Wells’ Lilian Baylis Studio Theatre, New-Yorker Daniel Linehan focused on bringing together contradictions.